Windows 7: 10 Things That Still Need Fixing

Illustration by Keith Negley> For a Microsoft product, Windows 7 is quite refined. However, even unnecessary inconsistency. Why most of the tools menu instead of the left, while Internet Explorer 8 and the help system to drive them to the opposite extreme? Does the new media sharing feature (HomeGroup) have zero, one or two capital letters? Why the Office 2007 Ribbon interface in just the paint and WordPad?

Too often, decisions of Microsoft names confuse rather than clarify. ? User Account Control "has nothing to do with the function that is supposed to describe the sounds? Action Center" as a local television news of Ron Burgundy. And an operating system that already has a feature called Device Manager should not call a new feature? Devices and printers.

The operating system patches incorporated in capacity is essential. However, Windows Update is also more irritating property of extension of the operating system. Tell it to download and install all without further intervention (such as Microsoft recommends), and may still insist on reboot when in the midst of important work - or deny access to your computer completely while installing the updates.
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Federated Search Window 7 lets you add external sources such as Flickr and YouTube to Windows Explorer searches. However, the operating system does not help you find those sources and federated search does not mention in their help system.

Help ... need help. Some sections of destination command line nerdy fans, while others address rookies no idea. A few sections focus on smart, but occupied users of intermediate experience.

Press-Tab in Windows, and Vista to get fancy 3D task switcher, which needlessly requires you to cycle through tasks one by one. This duplicates the functionality of Alt-Tab instead of allowing it to reach any task in a couple of clicks, like Apple's Exposé is similar.

Win 7 backup and restoration is no longer required to spend an external hard drive to a full backup of the system. But still not as easy to use as Apple's Time Machine. And Microsoft's decision to put the network back up on Windows 7 is more expensive editions is nonsense.

After several versions of Windows is fine in theory. But in reality, their small differences, subtle and arbitrary invite confusion. Misleading names like Windows 7 Home Premium - the only home version of Windows 7 available in the U.S. - Don'T Help.

Windows 7, the browser included is perfectly adequate. But it is catching up with innovative competitors, such as Firefox and Google Chrome, which sets new standards.

Like Vista, Windows 7 lets you create applications independent of the PDF documents using Microsoft as the XPS format retain their original format. However, it is ubiquitous PDF and XPS has not caught, so would not it be much more convenient if supported Windows 7 PDF of the box?